Will life ever go back to normal?

[freddotalks]

I'm really struggling to deal with this anxiety. I just keep looking at my gorgeous baby and thinking what will his life look like. I just want to wake up from this bad dream and do normal things with him. I keep crying.

I felt the same watching the plane fly into the 2nd tower on 9,11 while feeding my tiny baby. The world did return to normal. Although on that day it felt like it never would.

I think work from home will become more acceptable, thank goodness, and we may see improved hygiene controls on public transport. We may, like Asia, see people wearing face masks as standard on public transport

I think it will be a new normal as economically it’s going to be tough for quite a few people for some time,

At the moment some people are being arseholes but it is a minority and it’s early days at getting our heads round this. I think afterwards people will have reassessed their priorities, realise what is important and gradually over time we will find things take a different direction to how they were before and I would like to think that some of the divides that had been caused by Brexit will start to heal over time.

The UK has survived 2 world wars and come back stronger than ever. This is nothing in comparison to bench bombed repeatedly.

Being, not bench!

I suffer with anxiety too. I'm kind of hoping it might actually change things for the better. Things right now are scary and unknown butnim hoping once we all get through this we will all be kinder and more patient with each other. Maybe I'm dreaming I dont know. But I was starting to hate the life I was bringing my kids up in prior to this happening and hoping it will bring some change.

Sorry for typo!

Of course it will. This is big but it won't last forever.

I wish people wouldn't post stats with no context.
The CFR is NOT 7%. We have no idea what it is in the UK, or even globally. We can only say the CFR for those sick enough to be admitted to hospital

I doubt we will see anything like the kind of social change that came out of the Black Death or the Second World War or any of those other big historic events that had been the catalyst for social change on a grand level in the past. BUT neither will things be exactly the same. I expect that air travel will change. A bit like the way that it did after 911. So for people who travel a lot it will be much more noticeable. I hope that we see much better hygiene practices. But I'm sure in a few months my kids will be back in the soft play licking the balls and getting snot on the slide, as will everybody else's (gross little cretins that they are). Everyone will be in the playground at pick up moaning about the weather and public transport and Brexit. But hopefully Tracy down the road might remember not to go to the GP for Noro virus because she know understands what "self isolate" means.

Pokkadots gosh yes I remember that day really did feel like the world was forever changed and in many ways it was. It made me realise there were truly evil people walking amongst us and air travel changed drastically but fundamentally day to day life stayed the same.

She now understands not know

@Pokkadots

Even thinking about it gives me goose bumps.

I think things will return to a new normal, but I think it'll take a while. I do think that eventually probably everyone will know someone who has died from it.

Jesus. Your baby's life will look more or less like our lives did. Nothing significant is going to change.

Until the pending climate disaster hits and sea levels rise and 2 billion coastal dwellers have to migrate inland, that is. But that won't be until your baby's 50 or so.

I agree that the economic impact will have long term implications.

Of course it will. It went back to normal all over Europe after WW1 and WW2 both of which affected Europe far more than Coronavirus will affect us. It went back to normal in Berlin after the Berlin wall came down. Civilisation has been through worse.

My DD (19) recently announced that she is never having children because she doesn't know what kind of world they will grow up in.
That makes me so sad.
Not helped by the posts of such as yourstunbridgewells and AngelicaKauffman

@freddotalks Of COURSE life will go back to normal.

This is all a storm in a teacup, and by mid-June will just all be a horrible memory.

Try not to worry. Hold on to your hat, sit tight, look after your lovely baby (and yourself,) and it will all be over soon.

My good god. ‘Manage to survive it’?! The vast majority will ‘survive’ it. There are some people who seem to be thoroughly enjoying the dramatics

OP, things will go back to normal as soon as people grow bored. There would be none of this hype if it wasn’t for social media. No one went on like this about swine flu. No one is scarred by the swine flu experience

@Koalaing What a very good post. I wish it could be lasered onto people's minds.

Thank you for this post. It is really reassuring as I feel the same as op. Have a young child myself. When swine flu was out I had no children and don't even remember much about it, I think having children does make you think more.

dh says give it a few months and hollywood will make a block buster film about this, i get the impression that there are people on mn and in the media who are, in some perverse way, enjoying the drama and will have plenty how we struggled through stories for their dc when they are older.

I'm hoping that the new normal the other side of this will be a lot less commuting and a lot more WFH.

I think people on here adore the hysteria